Thanks, Will give it a try.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: brian [mailto:bally.z...@gmail.com] Sent: October-04-09 1:29 PM To: cake-php@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: showEmpty? I believe it's 'empty => 'Select your State'. If the param is false, null, or the empty string, Cake outputs an empty option. On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Dave Maharaj :: WidePixels.com <d...@widepixels.com> wrote: > > I had a same / similar question for input selects which is related to this. > > I have my echo $form->input('State'); which is populated by a find > list...so I have all my States. How can I add so first option to be > "Select your State" with no value? Right now Alabama shows up first > and if a user does not select a State Alabama is automatically saved. > > $selected = array('option' => 'Select your State', 'value' => '0')? > > Thanks, > > Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: Miles J [mailto:mileswjohn...@gmail.com] > Sent: October-04-09 7:35 AM > To: CakePHP > Subject: Re: showEmpty? > > > You should only be using input(). > > echo $form->input('State', array('options' => array('NJ' => New > Jersey', 'NY' => 'New York'), 'empty' => false)); > > On Oct 3, 7:33 pm, Gonzalo Servat <gser...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 7:21 AM, > gimperdan...@gmail.com<gimperdan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> [..snip..] >> >> > This is what I have: >> >> > echo $form->select('State', array('NJ' => New Jersey', 'NY' => 'New >> > York')); >> >> > I want to remove the empty option of this select box. According to >> > the API I need to add $showEmpty = false to the code above.. but >> > where do I add it? I tried in several different locations and it >> > won't > work. >> >> The function's arguments are: >> >> select($fieldName, $options = array(), $selected = null, $attributes >> = array(), $showEmpty = '') >> >> You only supplied the first and second arguments so if you want to >> keep the defaults for the rest except for $showEmpty, you'd need to >> do something like the following: >> >> echo $form->select('State', array('NJ' => 'New Jersey', 'NY' => 'New >> York'), null, array(), false) >> >> (notice I kept the defaults "null" and "array()" for the arguments >> between $options and $showEmpty) >> >> - Gonzalo > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
